Once more CLR pays respect to the intriguing music on Motor's Man Made Machine (CLRX 001CD/LP) album and releases another exciting remix package. This time, the featured vocalist is legendary Nitzer Ebb lead singer Douglas McCarthy. On the A-side of number three in this series of limited edition picture discs, a deep, hypnotic version of "The Knife" by Brian Sanhaji slowly unfolds over 10 1/2 minutes. The B-side contains a faster, pleasantly driving take by Peter van Hoesen.

MOTOR presents their fourth album, which opens a new chapter in the history of the band. After completing three massively-successful and critically-acclaimed techno albums, Bryan Black and Oly Grasset, who together form the duo MOTOR, have shifted gears and recorded a song-based vocal album by the name of Man Made Machine. The album was conceived during their world tour with Depeche Mode in 2009 when Dave Gahan fell ill and the band found themselves in a hotel in Berlin with time on their hands. It features the vocalists Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode), Gary Numan, Billie Ray Martin (S' Express, Electribe 101) and Motown's rising new star, Reni Lane. When MOTOR secretly played the first single from the upcoming album (also titled Man Made Machine) on a BBC radio broadcast, it got over 10,000 views within hours of being ripped and broadcasted on YouTube. The reactions from Depeche Mode and MOTOR fans are absolutely ecstatic. One online comment, which has often been quoted and agreed to, is that "Man Made Machine" sounds like the modern version of the Depeche Mode track "Personal Jesus" -- a royal honor for the guys from MOTOR. It is no coincidence that the album features some of the key figures in the evolution of electronic music. MOTOR have played as the main support act on sold-out tours for Gary Numan, Nitzer Ebb and Depeche Mode and have been considered one of their best-received support acts. They have performed on the main stages of all the top festivals with acts like Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Soulwax, Justice, etc. They are known for having one of the most explosive and entertaining live shows in dance music. Other than that, MOTOR's music has been featured on various HBO and Showtime TV programs, in films and in several Playstation and Nintendo video games. Their impressive list of remixes includes "Precious" by Depeche Mode. In Mixmag 2006, Depeche Mode actually listed this one as their favourite DM remix of all time. This should in itself be enough to create some pleasant anticipation of the upcoming album and tour from these unconventional techno pioneers. Housed in a silver foil electrostatic bag.

LP version. MOTOR presents their fourth album, which opens a new chapter in the history of the band. After completing three massively-successful and critically-acclaimed techno albums, Bryan Black and Oly Grasset, who together form the duo MOTOR, have shifted gears and recorded a song-based vocal album by the name of Man Made Machine. The album was conceived during their world tour with Depeche Mode in 2009 when Dave Gahan fell ill and the band found themselves in a hotel in Berlin with time on their hands. It features the vocalists Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode), Gary Numan, Billie Ray Martin (S' Express, Electribe 101) and Motown's rising new star, Reni Lane. When MOTOR secretly played the first single from the upcoming album (also titled Man Made Machine) on a BBC radio broadcast, it got over 10,000 views within hours of being ripped and broadcasted on YouTube. The reactions from Depeche Mode and MOTOR fans are absolutely ecstatic. One online comment, which has often been quoted and agreed to, is that "Man Made Machine" sounds like the modern version of the Depeche Mode track "Personal Jesus" -- a royal honor for the guys from MOTOR. It is no coincidence that the album features some of the key figures in the evolution of electronic music. MOTOR have played as the main support act on sold-out tours for Gary Numan, Nitzer Ebb and Depeche Mode and have been considered one of their best-received support acts. They have performed on the main stages of all the top festivals with acts like Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Soulwax, Justice, etc. They are known for having one of the most explosive and entertaining live shows in dance music. Other than that, MOTOR's music has been featured on various HBO and Showtime TV programs, in films and in several Playstation and Nintendo video games. Their impressive list of remixes includes "Precious" by Depeche Mode. In Mixmag 2006, Depeche Mode actually listed this one as their favourite DM remix of all time.

Notorious techno-rockers Motor return with a cut off their Metal Machine full-length "Death Rave," a ferociously tough, turbo-charged dancefloor destroyer that rocks out with unrestrained raw power. Combining detuned snarling synths with rock-hard beats, "Death Rave" smashes all senses with undisguised glee. "Metal Machine" (itself a dark, ominous, techno killer) is also included, though is not available on the album. Remix duties are handled by electro-tech DJ/producer Jonty Skrufff, who revs up Motor's original for maximum dancefloor-destroying effect.

Worth mentioning again that these are not the Russian dudes who made Hexen. "Motor is totally uncompromised electronic music practicing a punk ethic, deliberately breaking any musical restrictions or sound barriers. After releasing a string of raw, bold and innovative singles, Klunk is Motor's debut full-length album. Packed with dark menacing grooves, corrosive industrial drumming and the lost, tripped out cranial bending atmosphere of a party that just didn't quite stop, Klunk joins the dots between Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Final Cut, Plastikman, acid house and minimal techno creating a glorious dancefloor killing sound that is uniquely Motor."

Anyone who has paid attention to electronic music over the past decade knows that Motor is an artist from Moskow, responsible for one of deepest albums of the millennium, Hexen (which might be o/p at the moment, unfortunately). Except the clowns at Novamute, evidently. This is a different Motor, no connection to the original. "Motor is Mr. No (from Paris) and Bryan Black (from Minneapolis), also known under the alias XLover. Electronic music practicing a punk ethic, Motor is unlike anything else: abrasive, strangely melodic, pulsing like a machine. A sound, which by no mistake, has put them in a class of their own."

1999 release, now repressed with an orange sleeve. Very heavy full length CD debut by this Russian techno artist known as Motor. Jubilant four-to-the-floor deepness, described by Kompakt's Michael Mayer as "maybe the most wicked and euphoric record on earth".